Busy busy!!

So for the last couple of weeks, I didn't have much time for cooking and meal planning.  

Mother's day weekend was very busy!  Saturday we went to buy some seedlings for the veggie garden at Rutgers Garden's plant sale.  We bought 6 pickling cucumbers (I believe they are all National Pickling variety).  2 each of cherry tomatoes (1 we tried last year - Juliet, and a new one - Midnight Snack) and 4 tomatillos.  We are trying again (possibly for the last time) to grow peppers - we bought 2 sweet (Gypsy and California Wonder) and 2 hot peppers (Garden Salsa and Aji Rico). We haven't had much success with peppers so we are hoping what we learned will help us grow them better. We also got some flowers and herbs.  

Sunday I baked rye bread for the first time.  I thought it was kind of salty but my father in-law loved it and so did my husband's grandmother.  I had lunch with my husband's mother and grandmother, along with his uncle and step-father for Mother's Day. That was nice.  I'd planned on having pizza that Sunday night,  but instead I was very full from lunch and so George ate most of what I brought home and I had half a sandwich. Pizza was made on Monday night and was excellent.  My own dough that I'd frozen.  George picked Greek stuff to put on it - gyro meat, red onion, feta, he put olives and tomatoes on his side as well. So good but salty!  I made black bean burgers later in the week and they came out great too.  (I more or less followed this recipe.) For lunches we just had sandwiches, veggies and fruit.

Last week was HOT.  I had another busy weekend that weekend and also did not feel like cooking much when it was so hot! Saturday we did a lot of gardening and fixing up the yard.  George's uncle fixed up our greenhouse and we planted our herb garden in there, then put down some fabric and got things set up for the veggie garden.  Sunday was Pokemon community day, so I braved the 85 degree temps to play for both me and George.  Got my steps in and came home to shower and throw something in the pressure cooker before Game of Thrones.  I'll post the recipe for the cheeseburger mac.  George loved it.